Drift HD170 or X170

[Tr33Climb3r]

What do you guys think? Don't think I will be getting one anytime soon just want to see what you guys think. Unless I sell those CMI Ascenders in treebay

 

[UrbanTC]

I had both. I sold the x170, the HD170 is the way to go, you don't have to replace batteries as you do with the x170. The HD video looks so much better. The HD170 records the video as a .MOV file, so you will need a editor that can work with .MOV files. I use Cyberlink PowerDirector. Go with the HD170.

 

[JesseHuffman]

what he said

 

[UrbanTC]

Don't listen to Jesse..... well, maybe this time.

 

[rfwoodvt]

FWIW I went with the x170. Picked it up on ebay for $135. I ran it a lot over the Geezers weekend and never had to change the batteries. I ended up with two DVD's worth of raw video from the one set of batteries.

Here is some video of my hybrid SRT set up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVu0XEsKW6g

The POV footage was taken with the x170 and the other with an HD hand held camera by a second operator. The x170 being a helmet cam has a lot of "all over the place" and not necessarily steady but that is a function of being a helmet came versus the camera itself.

The good news about the batteries is that they are double a's so if you go dead you just pop two more in. Bad news is you gotta have double a's.

the x170 records in AVI so you dump it straight to Adobe Premier.

I used to worry about not having HD but since most of my vids are watched by people without HD it really doesn't matter.

If I had plenty of cash though I think I'd go with the Contour 1080p. Easier aiming and alignment, greater capacity and uses a common cell phone battery. Tons of car chargers available for that battery as well. Also it appears to have an aluminum body and I think a bit more watertight.

Anyhow, I'm pleased with the x170 as it was cheap and gets me started with helmet cam images.

 

[JesseHuffman]

Hey Richard , cool video.
Dont you want to spike that srt line below your Secret weapon before you go climbing about?
Just curious. I know it would be needed in competition

 

[Tr33Climb3r]

Thanks guys for the comments. It really helps me

 

[rfwoodvt]

Hey Jesse,

The answer is "yes" and I did the second time I stopped...narration covered that step

 

[JesseHuffman]

sorry, short attention span....missed that

 

[Raven27]

I have/had x170. lost video in only a few months[ defect ] lense isn't suppose to spin 360 so it pulled harness wiring out. fixed myself several times, then lost audio. never droped or damaged . they are however replacing it. easy to use. i have 8GB memory, so plenty of memory. audio sucks